Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.